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Alina Horvath
‘A wonderful musician who possesses sensitivity and musical intelligence, in command of a rich palette of timbre.’
Solo - Piano
Instrumentation
- Alina Horvath - Classical piano
Repertoire
Alina performs an extensive repertoire of baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary music and aims to share a mixture of well-known melodies and less often heard works, including Hungarian piano repertoire.
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D major K 119, L 415
Sonata in G minor K 450, L 338
Sonata in A major k 175
Joseph Haydn: Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI/52
L van Beethoven: 7 Bagatelles Op. 33
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 16 in A minor, S.244/ Le Rossignol, S. 250/1/Petrarch Sonett 123
Frederic Chopin: Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31
Claude Debussy: Pour le Piano
Béla Bartók: Suite Op. 14
Biography
Hungarian pianist Alina Horváth is the recipient of the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano. Winner of the ‘Music without borders’ International Contemporary Music Competition; including the Audience Award, the Governors' Recital Prize and the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music. She has been a concerto soloist with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Symphony Orchestra and the Wind Orchestra, and a recitalist in many concert halls and music festivals across the UK and Hungary such as Budapest Spring Festival, Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Glasgow Piano Festival and Music at Paxton. She is a pianist on the Live Music Now young artist scheme, giving concerts and workshops across Scotland. Among other prestigious venues her voice and piano duo has performed at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Aberdeen Music Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. As part of the research project ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21th Century’ she played virginal and pianoforte on the recordings of The Centre of Robert Burns Studies, producing a multi-volume edition of Robert Burns’s work published by Oxford University Press. She also recorded piano for the background score of the Indian Kannada cyber thriller, Gultoo (2018). Her love of music is not only dedicated to performances, but she is also an enthusiastic teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Conservatoire and accompanist at the National Youth Choir of Scotland. On her vacation Alina enjoys teaching the piano at the international Allegro Summer Camp held annually at the spectacular lake Balaton in Hungary.
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